![]() ![]() But what's the point of living if her soul is destined to bleed? If only she weren't stuck at a new group-therapy home that promises a second chance at life. The only thing she can rely on is the numbness she finds within the cool and comforting ocean waves. ![]() Depression and anxiety have left her feeling isolated. Will it come for Coral next?Ībove the sea, Brooke has nothing left to give. Her sister had the Disease, and Red Tide took her away. She fears she has been afflicted with the dreaded Disease said to be carried by humans: emotions. Inspired by "The Little Mermaid," Coral explores what it means to be human in a world where humanity often seems lost.Ĭoral has always been different, standing out from her mermaid sisters in a society where blending in is key. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But then her long-lost father turns up - at the same time as she discovers someone has stolen her identity. But is he all that he seems? Before long, Tracie is sampling all the city has to offer - including South Central street gangs and cheerleading lessons. He'll show Tracie the sights of LA A's sights - including the Beckhams. It seems LA's not ready for WAGS - the women are naturally golden rather than fake bake orange, there's no boozing and everyone is thinner than her - surely that's not possible when she last ate a proper meal in 1997? But at least there's plenty of cosmetic surgery! Enter Jamie, a knight in shining Lycra. Whilst husband Dean swaps life on the subs bench for coaching the LA Raiders and daughter Paskia-Rose is busy settling into her new school, Tracie is left twiddling her manicured fingers. Tracie Martin is back! But this time everyone's favourite Wag is in LA, City of Angels - and her idol Victoria Beckham! But it's not all California dreaming. You can take the WAG out of Luton but you can't take Luton out of the WAG!. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If Karl Marx had chosen to make Das Kapital a novel set in the Americas, he might have come out with a book something like this." -Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove ", both of its time and prescient, reflects an Indigenous conception of history as always simultaneously forming our present and future. In a long dialectic, tinted with genius and compelled by a just anger, Silko dramatizes the often desperate struggle of native peoples in the Americas to keep, at all costs, the core of their culture: their way of seeing, their way of believing, their way of being. ![]() Almanac of the Dead burns at an apocalyptic pitch-passionate indictment, defiant augury, bravura storytelling." -Elizabeth Tallent, The New York Times Book Review "A brilliant, haunting, and tragic novel of ruin and resistance in the Americas. There is genius in the sheer, tireless variousness of the novel's interconnecting tales. Praise for Almanac of the Dead : "The best way to read Almanac of the Dead is to let it wash over you like a wave. ![]() |